27 Cooper Square
27 Cooper Square
In the 1960s, this 1845 former rooming house became a laboratory for artistic, literary and political currents. Writers LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones, their Yugen magazine and Totem Press, musician Archie Shepp and painter Elizabeth Murray all had homes here. The vacant building was transformed into a vital hub of cultural life, attracting leading figures including those from the Beats and the world of jazz.
Submitted by The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
- 27 cooper square
- east village
- nyc
- new york city
- leroi jones
- amiri baraka
- hettie jones
- yugen magazine
- totem press
- allen ginsberg
- jack kerouac
- frank o'hara
- william s. burroughs
- edward dorn
- peter orlovsky
- archie shepp
- ornette coleman
- elizabeth murray
- beat generation poets and writers
- east village artists and thinkers in the 1960s
- black mountain poets
- black arts movement
- jazz in nyc in the 1960s
- five spot café jazz club
- american civil rights movement
- american civil rights activists
- 20th-century african-american writers